[rfp1234]

BTTT

[BOBTHENAILER]

Great post. Hanson nails it.

[yldstrk]

yep yep

[rlmorel]

Yes, for an old Stainist, his is right on top of this one...:)

[Wiseghy]

This matches with the internal intelligence analysts I’ve read.

After all the problems with CIA, all the intelligence sources are providing honest feedback as an CYA. AQ is mostly toast. No doubt about it. They would never, ever say it unless it was so, since a big attack now would prove them all liars and end their careers.

AQ has expended their last load trying to pull another “tet”, but no one noticed.

[Congressman Billybob]

Unwillingness to take responsibility for the consequences of their decisions is the common denominator of pacifists. Click below for a perspective on the breed.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article, "The War about War"

[VRWC For Truth]

Bush Derangement Syndrome

[Paladin2]

Perhaps the imminent closure of Club Gitmo is bad for recruiting?

[Tolik]

    Victor Davis Hanson Ping ! 

       Let me know if you want in or out.

Links:    FR Index of his articles:  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=victordavishanson
                His website: http://victorhanson.com/
                NRO archive: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson-archive.asp
                Pajamasmedia:   http://victordavishanson.pajamasmedia.com/

[Billthedrill]

If it continues to work the Iraq intervention will be considered a geostrategic ploy as significant as the Marshall Plan. That may take years to emerge, sadly because such a large percentage of media and academia have grown bloated and incapable of admitting that their members were mistaken.

This won't solve the Middle East's problems, and it was never intended to do so. But it may stop what seemed five years ago like an inevitable slide into Lebanon-style bloody chaos, wherein a police state under a tyrant would be regarded as a welcome relief. There are parts of the Middle East where even now that slide seems inevitable. Iraq isn't one of them.

[Skooz]

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